They're the red and green antiques filling old barns across Iowa. But it turns out John Deere's and Farmall's have more than just horsepower. Eric Hanson met two guys who swear they also have 'healing' power, new at 6. TO PAINT A SMALL TOWN SMILE-- Starting. ALL YOU NEED IS A KEY-- Sweet, huh? TO A FARMING CLASSIC. It gets you right here. THE GUY WITH A COUPLE DOZEN IS SIMPLY SMITTEN. I don't know how to golf and I don't know how to throw a ball, but I do love tractors. ESPECIALLY TINKERING. BUT LAST YEAR, LARRY SCHABEL'S SHED SAT QUIET. HIS DOCTORS SAID 'COLON CANCER' AND IT STUNG. BUT ONLY FOR 15 MINUTES. Pause. And from that moment on, it was OK. BUT WHILE WALKING HOSPITAL HALLS, LARRY SAW ANOTHER GUY WHO WASN'T TAKING IT SO WELL. I was sitting there in my chair, in my room with nobody around, nothing to do, just sitting there thinking. You start thinking about things. I says, 'You'd feel better if you walked.' So we started walking, got to talking. DISCOVERING, WHILE DRAGGING I-V BAGS, THEY SHARED A FIRST NAME, A DIAGNOSIS AND A SOFT SPOT-- Oh, I'm a red man all the way. FOR THE SAME COLOR. I love red. That set it right there. That was the friendship set in stone right there. STILL IN HOSPITAL GOWNS, THE LARRY'S PLEDGED TO FIGHT TOGETHER. WHEN THEY GOT OUT-- It was in pretty bad shape. THEY FOUND ANOTHER OLD BODY IN NEED OF HEALING. Well we handed tools like we were nurses. Every bolt on it was rusted solid. We spent about every week together when we weren't on chemo, doing the old tractor. You know, we didn't just talk tractors, we'd say how's the gavin pit. How's your feet? How you feeling today? THEN IT CAME TIME TO PAINT. AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION. The pink's are for the breast cancer, the blue's for colon cancer, the orange is for blood diseases. FIGHTING CANCER TAKES DRUGS, DOCTORS AND DISTRACTIONS . Whether it's your grandkids or whether it's your garden. There is medicine in what you do because it takes your mind off of that. A YEAR AFTER THEY STARTED, THE GUYS NOW RAFFLING OFF THEIR 'LITTLE ALLIS' TO SUPPORT OTHER CANCER PATIENTS SWEAR THERE'S ALSO HEALING-- Larry was a very sick boy. I got a clean bill of health. WHEN YOU MIX TWO LARRY'S-- Well there's a case of me using a new friend to help me get well. AND A TRACTOR. ERIC HANSON, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA'S NEWS LEADER. The Larry's will raffle off their cancer tractor in two weeks. And they beg everyone, get your colonoscopies. The old Des Moines Botanical Center recently got a new name. The Greater Des Moines